Daily Dharma

Every-Minute Zen Zen students are with their masters at least ten years before they presume to teach others. Nan-in was visited by Tenno, who, having… Read More »The Daily Dharma – February 4, 2022

What makes us miserable, what causes us to be in conflict with one another? It’s our insistence on our particular view of things. Our view… Read More »The Daily Dharma – February 3, 2022

Better than a thousand hollow wordsIs one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow versesIs one verse that brings peace. Better than a… Read More »The Daily Dharma – February 2, 2022

But I need to be careful not to suggest that anyone should practice expecting some particular result. Suzuki Roshi often cautioned: “No gaining idea! No… Read More »The Daily Dharma – February 1, 2022

. . . So the karma that is coming up calls us now to live through it fully, let go of the self-concept that refused… Read More »The Daily Dharma – January 31, 2022

Because we always have some agenda that we are engaged in trying to fulfill, we are never really there, never fully present in our bodies… Read More »The Daily Dharma – January 30, 2022

I have found that this life is a ceaseless becoming, a ceaseless passing on to something else. And that if we are to live it… Read More »The Daily Dharma – January 27, 2022

“The idea of opening the heart beyond your own self reminds me of a rather ordinary event that happened not so long ago. I was… Read More »The Daily Dharma – January 26, 2022